Christmas Quotes

There are two S-es in “Christmas” and they’re “both” dollar signs.

This is the irrational season When love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason There’d have been no room for the child.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done?; Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young;

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays – let […]

What in heaven’s name is the idea of everyone sending everyone else pictures of stage-coaches, fairies, foxes, dogs, butterflies, kittens, flowers, etc.?… Imagine a Chinese man sitting at a table covered with small pictures. The man explains that he is preparing for the anniversary of Buddha’s being protected by the dragons. Not that he personally […]

Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us, a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird, a social being, capable of actual affection, nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it’s dead and we’re gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. […]

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas.